Bulletins

• Excentus Powers New Loyalty Program

  Dallas-based Excentus, a loyalty marketing firm recently acquired by PDI Software, resumed its relationship with Southeastern Grocers through an improved loyalty program.
  Charlie Menchaca

  

• Hershey Promotes Phil Stanley to Chief Sales Officer

  The Hershey Co. recently promoted Phil Stanley, its vice president of sales business development, to the role of chief sales officer.
  Charlie Menchaca

  

• Central Group Acquires Packaging Technologies

  The Central Group, Toronto, acquired all of Packaging Technologies Inc., a Concord, Ontario-based designer and manufacturer of high-impact graphic corrugated packaging and P-O-P displays. Packaging Technologies will continue to operate under its own name.
  Charlie Menchaca

  

• Ripple Street Partners With Curalate on Content

  Philadelphia-based Curalate is teaming up with Ripple Street, Irvington, New York (formerly House Party Inc.), to make influencer content shoppable.
  Charlie Menchaca

  

• Perry Ellis Switches CRM Platforms

  The luxury lifestyle brand went live with the cloud-based Oracle Retail Customer Engagement platform with help from systems integrator BTM Global.
  Nicole Gillo

• Rite Aid Taps Havas as Agency of Record

  Rite Aid named New York-based Havas North America as its new agency of record with an emphasis on brand strategy and creative.
  Charlie Menchaca

  

• Lees of Scotland Finds an ERP 'Sweets Spot'

  The confectionery and meringue manufacturer turned to Infor ERP to modernize processes and optimize capacity.
  Nicole Gillo

• CPGToolBox Connects with Salesforce Lightning

  A new TPM platform from CPGToolBox leverages Salesforce.com Lightning for improved experience and productivity.
  Nicole Gillo

• Manolo Blahnik Steps Up PLM

  The upscale shoe brand has improved collaboration and reduced manual data entry with a PLM implementation from Centric Software.
  Nicole Gillo

• News America, Toshiba Team for Next-Gen Media

  The alliance will create marketing opportunities for retailers and brands at store registers, in the aisles and also in consumer homes.
  Nicole Gillo